Joe Walker

When I was fresh out of college, my first job was working for the OpenGroup, and my command line looked something like this:
In 2009, fired by the white heat of years of cutting edge research and development, my command line looks a lot more like

The DWR project has a new lead developer - We've just closed a unanimous vote that declares David Marginian to be the new lead.
David had been around DWR since the beginning, and has been consistently one of the most helpful people on the mailing li

Yeah, so Bespin a cool editor, and it makes use of lots of bleeding edge tech, (and it's got several annoying bugs - sorry about those). But I think Bespin has potential way beyond just looking nice ...
Open source development: You hear about projec

I’m very excited to be going to work for Mozilla Labs.
I have very much enjoyed my time working at SitePen - they are doing awesome work with Dojo and DWR, but with the main development on DWR 3 being done, it's time to move on. SitePen has some a

If you want to protect yourself from a XSS attack, what characters should you escape? I've seen 2 recommendations:
', ", <, > and & should be converted to &apos;, &quot;, &lt;, &gt;, &amp;
Convert anything tha

10 years ago the default was probably VB6/Windows, these days it’s just the web. Why?
If we don't know what's right about the web, then it's hard to know how to build on the success.
4 reasons why; and they've all got something vital in common.

Brad asked what the 'Open Web' is. Twice. My mum was always cross if she had to ask 3 times, so here's my stab.
The Open Web is the user-remixable technologies that are shipped by the clear majority of major browsers
So, for example:
XHTML 2.0 is

Brad asked what the 'Open Web' is. Twice. My mum was always cross if she had to ask 3 times, so here's my stab.
The Open Web is the user-remixable technologies that are shipped by the clear majority of major browsers
So, for example:
XHTML 2.0 is